Author Archives: Don Osborne

Shadowing is an important step on the route to becoming a doctor. Shadowing a doctor is a great way to make sure that you actually enjoy interacting with patients in a health care setting, but privacy concerns are making it harder and harder to get the hands-on experience that is Continue reading

The MCAT is an essential piece of the admissions puzzle. If you don’t take the MCAT, there’s no way you’re going to med school. If you take the MCAT, but your score is low, you’re not going to med school.

A premed recently asked me this great question about their medical school personal statement: “I want to write a unique essay, and there are a few tragic stories from my life that I think will really get medical schools to remember my essay. Should I tell any of my sad Continue reading

The medical school personal statement is the first big admissions essay that you have to write for your primary application, but right when you’re done with the personal statement medical schools send the next round of essays: the secondary application.

Personalstatementsecrets.com is devoted to the personal statement as it relates to medical school admissions, but as a medical school admissions consultant, my consulting programs and online courses help premeds with all areas of the admissions process.

Once you’ve explored the personal statement on this site, I recommend that you learn Continue reading

Online MCAT videos are making MCAT prep much more affordable and accessible than it used to be. Expensive live MCAT courses and prep books are still very common, but now MCAT videos provide a way for you to avoid big prep expenses.

Do you know your GPA for medical school? It’s important to know your actual GPA for medical school because it affects where and when you apply to med school. If you calculate the wrong GPA, you might apply to the wrong school at the wrong time! That will decrease your Continue reading